Obama wasn’t the first presidential candidate to use a BlackBerry. And while Al Gore was no longer running for anything in April 2001 he apparently didn’t give up his mobile device after his campaign. Any guesses what he would have been using? Maybe a BlackBerry 857?

This post talks about the Cell processor (the same architecture famously used in the PlayStation 3). Here Geek links off to a good read at the Register. It’s pretty incredible that these actually made their way out to millions of consoles.

No one ever forecasted that the whole “netbook” name would cause such a stir. Anyway, you can check out a review of the original gangster of netbooks, the Psion netBook, from this article. Even back in the day there was confusion about what to call these things–the article calls it’s a “notebook” in the title and then a “notebook PDA” in the article. Back in 2001 the trademark “netBook” actually meant something…